Inside Unmanned Systems

AUG-SEP 2018

Inside Unmanned Systems provides actionable business intelligence to decision-makers and influencers operating within the global UAS community. Features include analysis of key technologies, policy/regulatory developments and new product design.

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Topics already covered include safe-
ty, privacy and insurance, and the new
tools will cover the privacy dimension,
including, specifically, the GDPR.
"There will also be an e-learning
course to help pilots and manufactur-
ers to better understand what privacy
and data protection issues may be cov-
ered by their operations, and also a pri-
vacy impact assessment template and
app," Lentz said.
"I think this is quite necessary, be-
cause most operators, when they are up
in the air, are focusing on their business.
They are not, except in some cases, inter-
ested in various odd people that might
be standing around on the ground. But
it's not because you are looking at a pow-
er line that you may not take a picture
of someone sitting in their back garden.
Of course we don't focus on these people,
but in this case you have actually cap-
tured their personal data and some legal
obligation falls upon you.
"This privacy issue should really be
built into the drone business," Lentz
concluded, "because this would really
support the acceptance by citizens. It's
not only about complying with the le-
gal requirements, the GDPR. If you see
a drone f lying over your house, it might
not even have a camera onboard, but
people could feel attacked. So this kind
of thing must be taken into account."
FINAL SAY
The EU UAS scene has changed quite
a bit since the European Commission
first launched its 'Roadmap for the inte-
gration of civil RPAS into the European
Aviation System' in 2013, a year now
known in certain European circles as
'the year of the 'drone.' Obviously, the
industry has made great strides and is
likely to continue to do so, with or with-
out an European UAS regulation.
That said, by working in concert
with the global JARUS process, EASA
and the Commission are moving in the
right direction. Whether it now takes
until 2030 or whether member states
find it in their interests to move more
quickly, the new UAS regulation seems
bound eventually to be implemented
and to have a positive effect in terms
of EU-wide, and perhaps even world-
wide, cross-border drone business.